Exercise helped me more than any SSRI's years ago...it was just a Herculean effort to maintain in the midst of major clinical depression. Paxil helped & detracted the most. Improved my mood, but made it hard to get, well...hard. And that's fucking -because not so much- depressing in & of itself. Stuck between a rock & a not-so-hard hard place. But it -exercise- is, along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with a counselor of my choosing for a couple years, what helped me. That Noonday Demon hasn't returned in 20 years or so; & I'm not looking for the motherfucker, either. =D The best to describe what really must be experienced to be understood was Andrew Solomon in his book I earlier referenced. Insightful opus. Anyways, you guys snap out of it. Should look-up his Book T.V. appearance on CSPAN2...should be able to find it on youtube. That's actually some of the best programming I've watched & I highly recommend it. Except you, Hammer. You're goofy, & that's a whole different subject. Here's his TED Talk. Good stuff.